FOUNDER | DIRECTOR | PRODUCER

Kimberly Warner is an award-winning author, speaker, and essayist whose work explores chronic illness, identity, embodiment, grief, and the search for meaning inside uncertainty. Her writing has been praised by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus for its lyricism, emotional intelligence, and philosophical depth.

Warner’s acclaimed debut memoir, Unfixed (Empress Editions, 2025), emerged from her widely followed serialized Substack of the same name, where she quickly cultivated a devoted readership drawn to her rare ability to illuminate the emotional and existential realities of living inside an unpredictable neurological system. In Warner’s world, water becomes both metaphor and lived experience: disorientation, drift, immersion, survival.

A sought-after voice on resilience, uncertainty, and the human capacity for adaptation, Warner speaks nationally on chronic illness, identity, narrative medicine, and finding steadiness in an unfixed world. She has served on editorial boards, hosted panels at leading institutions, and contributed to medical education initiatives focused on embodiment, patient experience, and meaning-centered care.

For readers of Between Two Kingdoms, Famesick, and The Daily Stoic, Warner’s work sits at the intersection of memoir, philosophy, and emotional inquiry: intellectually rigorous, deeply vulnerable, and profoundly humane.

She continues to publish weekly essays, interviews, and videos exploring the hidden intelligence within adversity and the quiet beauty of lives that refuse to resolve neatly. 

BRAND DIRECTOR

David McLaughlin is a brand designer/strategist with over 30 years industry experience working with brands such as Nike, Microsoft, Dell, Apple, Starbucks, Victoria’s Secret, BCBG, Hurley, Pendleton, Hyatt Hotels, Mountain Hardwear, The North Face among others.

Previously he spent nearly 20 years as a designer, art director, and creative director at Nike working in apparel, timing/vision/tech and brand devisions where he held key brand positions in the launching of Nike Women’s and later working closely with Apple launching the initial Nike+ platform. As creative director his role was to prepare visual brand strategy and direction for new product concepts and category launches and develop seasonal direction for existing product ranges.

For the last 12 years he has worked as a consultant helping brands articulate and visualize their stories and positioning. With an extensive background in graphic design and writing, he is able to distill the most complex product or brand proposition into a clear, self-evident consumer facing story. His skill sets include developing brand standards, identity design, photography and photo direction concepting, storyboarding and direction, 3D visualization, packaging and retail.

David currently resides with his wife Kimberly on a small, rural farmstead outside of Portland, Oregon.